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Der Tagesspiegel - Germany | 13/08/2014

Robin Williams' suicide typical for society

People only talk about the taboo topic of suicide when celebrities like US actor Robin Williams kill themselves, the liberal Tagesspiegel laments: "More than 10,000 people take their own lives every year in Germany. That is almost three times the number of those who die in traffic accidents every year. … Victims of acts of violence, disasters, and Aids deaths - none of this compares with the suicide rate. And this is in a country which is not stricken by hunger or war, and in which the health system is in a passable state. But no one speaks up about it; there's no public debate on the subject. Suicide is the last taboo issue in modern society. … 'Freitod' (literally free death) - a word that was linked with the work of Friedrich Nietzsche and was banned by the Nazis - is still regarded as something unlawful, sinful, even criminal. … Suicides do not happen on the margins of society, but right in its midst."